This is a quite different Sleater-Kinney than the one fans have grown used to. From the first beats of the title track, you feel like you\u2019re in a St. Vincent record, and that\u2019s not what you want from Sleater-Kinney. You get a different sort of rock record, not one from a pioneering female trio, but one that feature the band playing with machines and overdubbing guitars atop them. The differences in the band\u2019s sound, amongst other things have resulted in their dynamic, powerhouse drummer Janet Weiss announcing her departure just before this album was released.<\/p>\n
The voices of Carrie and Corin are still omnipresent but the music is like bad post-punk new wave mix from the eighties. \u201cReach Out\u201d is just obnoxious and doesn\u2019t go anywhere and is one of the weakest tracks here. \u201cCan I Go On\u201d sounds good, but poppier than the best Sleater we\u2019ve heard before. Some would say the presence of St. Vincent behind the scenes might have been too much of a push on the band as their best material was generally handled by John Goodmanson, who was perfectly suited to handle everything the band was coming with.<\/p>\n
\u201cRestless\u201d is bland and not very appealing, especially considering what this band is usually more than capable of, while \u201cRUINS\u201d feels like it tailormade for radio airplay, but is another one of the songs that just doesn\u2019t go anywhere or do anything exciting for the ears. By contrast, \u201cThe Future is Here\u201d is one of the most exciting tracks here as it sounds more like old school Sleater that fans have always enjoyed — definitely one of the few interesting tracks that I found.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Dog\/The Body\u201d is a boring new wave track that sounds like it would be at home on a St. Vincent record, for sure. The closing track, \u201cBroken\u201d is a straight up piano torch ballad that at first is a bit odd, but ends up being really appealing and interesting. Unfortunately, what we have here is more of a St. Vincent album than a true Sleater disc, and that might be one of the biggest disappointments of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":33873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"artist":[5981],"rating":[5619],"class_list":["post-45700","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-sleater-kinney","rating-rating-c"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/45700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=45700"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=45700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}